Illegal Immigration: The Justice Department´s decision to sue California for violating the U.S. Constitution by obstructing federal immigration enforcement wasn´t made lightly. But given the enormous stakes involved it was necessary, and California deserves to lose, big time. "California, we have a problem," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech Wednesday. "Here´s my message — how dare you. How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of our law enforcement officers to promote a radical, open borders agenda." Bingo. California´s Democratic Party has moved so far to the left of the political spectrum, it can no longer be considered a

It appears that Sessions has recused himself from any and all duties of the Attorney General. Had President Trump appointed Ted Cruz or Trey Gowdy to that position, the Federal Marshals would be busy arresting the governor, many of the legislature, mayors, and various other state and local officials in California.

Is it really so ironic that California Democrats would follow a path trod by their Confederate Democrat forefathers who hid behind States’ Rights in order to justify keeping fellow human beings in chains?

The Federal Government should obtain a change of venue in their law suit against California and move the case to some disinterested State. All the Federal District Judges who would hear the case in California would have a conflict of interest, as they live in California, and therefore in such a politically charged matter, are more apt to rule in favor their hometown State Government, rather then the far off Federal Government.

The leftist-organized wave of school walkouts on March 14 to protest gun violence is a classic example of the way protests are categorized by our news and entertainment media. 1. Liberal protests are authentic cries from the grass roots; conservative protests are "AstroTurf." How homegrown were these liberal walkouts? They were organized weeks ago by the Women´s March on Washington leftists. Liberal parents forced school administrators to knuckle under and allow the walkouts without punishment. They were supported by passionate media coverage and media conglomerates like Viacom, which dedicated 17 minutes of airtime to show solidarity. So, was this organized political activism?

Cold War 2.0? To anyone with any sense, it´s now painfully obvious that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin isn´t merely a pest, but a menace. His government´s recent nerve gas attacks on former Russian citizens in Britain and threats over Syria underscore a growing threat. For years, Democrats in the U.S. have refused to take the old USSR or Putin and the "New Russia" seriously. From the late Sen. Ted Kennedy´s treasonous overture to the former Soviet Union to help undercut and defeat Ronald Reagan, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton´s inane "reset button," to President Obama signaling he would be

Markets: The morning after President Trump´s economic adviser Gary Cohn resigned in early March, stocks dropped amid concern that Trump was losing a free-market advisor. So, it´s worth noting that they jumped the morning after Trump announced he´d hired Larry Kudlow as Cohn´s replacement. Anyone who has followed Kudlow — whose columns have appeared in IBD for many years — already knows why he´s a smart choice. With a pedigree as a private-sector economist — he was chief economist at Bear Sterns — Kudlow understands the real-world impact of economic policies better than most ivory tower, prize-winning academics. For decades, Kuldow has been

Guns: While viciously attacking Republicans for opposing gun control, Democrats are celebrating the victory of gun-loving Conor Lamb in the Pennsylvania special election. What would those student gun control protestors say if they knew about that? Lamb defeated his Republican opponent Rick Saccone by a handful of votes in a district that went heavily for Donald Trump. It´s being heralded as a referendum on Trump and a bellwether for Democrats prospects in the fall midterm elections. What has barely been mentioned over the past few weeks, however, is the fact that Lamb ran as a something of a poster boy for the

Russia Scandal: A House Intelligence Committee report says investigators found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the presidential election. It´s time for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to say whether he´s found anything, either. The report, issued by Republicans on the committee, doesn´t deny that Russians were trying to meddle in the November 2016 elections, but that the Trump campaign had nothing to do with it. "We found no evidence of collusion," said Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican who headed up the Russia investigation. "We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings. But only Tom Clancy

Tax Cuts: The latest monthly Treasury report on taxes and spending shows that gross tax receipts in February were $1.4 billion higher than the year before. Weren´t the Republican tax cuts supposed to explode the deficit? According to the report, the government took in $238.2 billion in taxes in February. The year before, tax revenues were $236.8 billion. For fiscal year 2018, which started last October, taxes are up $50.5 billion compared with the same months last year, and are at a record high level for this five-month span. The report does show that net receipts were lower in February compared with last

Shake-Up: The long-rumored departure of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should come as no surprise. He and President Trump didn´t see eye-to-eye on many issues. What´s surprising is that Tillerson didn´t quit, but was fired. The reason: Trump is moving fast on foreign policy, and didn´t think Tillerson could keep up. Tillerson was rumored to be headed out the door last summer, and then again in November. As the rumors had it, he was fed up with the White House chaos, and in particular had strong differences with Trump on how to proceed with both Iran and North Korea. Former Exxon CEO

Excuses: While traveling in India over the weekend, Hillary Clinton was still trying to fix blame for her election loss 16 months ago. That is, fix blame somewhere other than her own dismal campaign. But every time she does so, she manages to expose just why it is that she did lose. While in India, Clinton blamed married women for not being able to stand up to their husbands and vote correctly. "We don´t do well with married, white women," she said, because of "ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should." Then she

Golden State: California´s bullet train project, also known as Jerry Brown´s Folly, has turned into a fiscal nightmare for the Golden State. Not only are the cost estimates soaring, but the time table has once more been shifted back. Based on current estimates, it may turn out to be the biggest fraud in the history of public works. When you lie about money in the private sector, it´s called fraud; when you lie about money in the public sector, it´s called politics or "public policy." California´s bullet train is a perfect example of this. Early on, planners warned that the cost would

Environmentalism: Climate change expert Arnold Schwarzenegger recently declared that he will be suing oil companies for murder because use of their product is warming the planet. Here´s a better idea: Thank the oil industry for contributing to unprecedented prosperity around the world. Speaking to Politico during the SXSW festival in Texas, Schwarzenegger said that he will be mounting a lawsuit against oil companies "for knowingly killing people all over the world." "This is no different from the smoking issue," Schwarzenegger said. "The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of

Russia Scandal: For weeks, official Washington and many voters have wondered: Why has there been no official investigation of the Justice Department and the FBI for their apparent misconduct in applying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016? Now we know: Quietly, an investigation has already begun. The question has grown in importance in recent days as Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a letter they sent to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod

Gun Control: During a keynote speech in Washington, D.C., Barack Obama started talking about guns, and repeated the completely bogus claim that Parkland, Fla., was the 18th school shooting this year. It´s hardly the first time Obama has peddled blatant falsehoods to push gun control. "If you ask me the thing that broke my heart, particularly when now I see there have been, and I´ve gotta update this," Obama said, "18 shootings in schools this year ... this year!" The Washington Examiner first noticed his quote. This is wrong every which way. IBD was one of the first news outlets to explain that

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is accusing politicians of being the “b**ch of the NRA” in a new ad for the March for Our Lives protest. Hogg posted the video advertisement for the March 24 protest on his Twitter account, asking “#WhatIf we could go to school without fearing for our lives?” The video starts on an edgy note, with Hogg glaring into the camera and declaring, “What if our politicians weren’t the b**ch of the NRA?” “What if we all voted and said this was not okay?” he continued. “What if we stood up as Americans and fought for our freedom and our children’s lives? My name is David Hogg and I stand with

Barbra Streisand said she´s never suffered sexual harassment but has felt abused by the media. During a tribute to Streisand´s decades of TV music specials and other programs, producer and long-time admirer Ryan Murphy queried her about her career, the #MeToo movement and her aversion to interviews. ´Never,´ she replied when asked if she had been sexually mistreated. ´I wasn´t like those pretty girls with those nice little noses. Maybe that´s why.´ She acknowledged the power of protests against gender inequality sweeping through Hollywood and society.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) scolded President Trump for celebrating the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday night, telling him to “gloat now, but you will be fired soon.” “And it’s not going to be done cowardly, as you’ve done to so many who’ve served you,” Swalwell tweeted Saturday. “There’s a storm gathering, Mr. President, and it’s going to wipe out you and your corrupt organization all the way down to the studs.” (Snip) The Democrat, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, was responding to Trump’s tweet celebrating McCabe’s firing. Swalwell also tweeted on Friday night that

Hillary Clinton provided an explanation for some recent comments she made that she understood ´upset or offended´ some Americans – statements that drew criticism from fellow Democrats and the Trump White House alike. ´I understand how some of what I said upset people and can be misinterpreted. I meant no disrespect to any individual or group,´ she said in a Facebook post. ´And I want to look to the future as much as anybody.´ Clinton, on a trip to India, had talked about how her voters came from economically advantaged places in comparison to Trump voters, and also noted how white women

First there was the casual sexism: the reason white women didn’t back her when she ran for president, Hillary Clinton believes, is “a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.” Have you noticed that her sneering always seems to take the same form? She’s become the queen of the contemptuous listicle that tails off into a snarling “whatever.” Remember the formulation in the speech where she came up with the term “basket of deplorables?” “You could put half of Trump´s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” Hillary said.

A prominent Republican says that Donald Trump would doom his presidency if he fires special counsel Robert Mueller. Sen Lindsey Graham, during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”, said that Mr Mueller is following the evidence where it takes him as he investigates Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Getting rid of Mr Mueller, the senator said, would be a step too far. “If he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency, because we´re a rule of law nation,” Mr Graham said. ”I think it´s very important he be allowed to do

Democratic lawmakers have offered to hire fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe so that he can qualify for his pension. McCabe´s employment was terminated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than 48 hours before he would have qualified for his pension, a day that was also his 50th birthday. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., asked McCabe on Twitter to "call him." "I could use a good two-day report on the biggest crime families in Washington, D.C.," he wrote. Pocan was responding to a tweet by MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell, who said if a member of Congress were to hire him

Republican Jeff Flake delivered a speech Thursday at the annual ´Politics and Eggs´ event at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Flake said that during the administration of President Donald Trump, conservatives were an endangered species and the Republican Party had surrendered to a "propaganda-fueled dystopian view." Flake, who recently called for a 2020 Republican primary challenger against President Trump, is in the group of people who might do just that. "I haven´t ruled it out," he told CNN later in this same day. "I stand before you today the rarest of species," the retiring moderate Republican

Armed sheriff´s deputies appeared on the scene of the recent school massacre in Florida while kids were still being murdered inside. But the deputies failed to storm the building to apprehend the killer, to rescue the assaulted, to stop the bleeding and to comfort the dying. They failed to do their jobs. Instead, they cowered behind their patrol cars waiting for, well, apparently waiting for the shooting to stop. Some 150 bullets and 17 lives later, it finally did and the killer walked away. Only then did the deputies enter the building. About that, President Donald Trump characteristically said what he thought. He

AN EXPLOSIVE new book has lifted the lid on the extraordinarily pampered life of luxury enjoyed by Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. The Prince is accustomed to travelling with his own very specific creature comforts, according to Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles by Tom Bower. The book describes how, before a visit to a friend in North-East England, he despatched his staff ahead a day early with a truck carrying Charles and Camilla’s complete bedrooms, including the Prince’s orthopaedic bed along with his own linen. His staff had also pack a small

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said he was uncomfortable with how the FBI´s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, was fired on Friday. ´I don´t like the way it happened,´ Rubio said Sunday on Meet the Press. ´He should´ve been allowed to finish through the weekend.´ Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to fire McCabe a little over 24 hours before his 50th birthday, which was the day he planned to officially retire from government service and would be eligible for his pension. (Snip) Rubio suggested that if the report would have indicated ´wrongdoing or something that was actionable´ than actions could have

Has $55million worth of lost gold from the Civil War era been found in central Pennsylvania? That´s what locals seem to believe after FBI agents, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and treasure hunters Dennis and Kem Parada were seen digging around a remote area in Benezette Township, called Dents Run. Dennis and his son Kem, the owners of the treasure hunting organization Finders Keepers, have claimed for years that 52 gold bars were buried under a fire pit at Dents Run more than 150 years ago during the Battle of Gettysburg. (Photos) The gold bars are believed to be